Episode · Huberman Lab · 2023-09-04
Books mentioned on How Risk Taking, Innovation & Artificial Intelligence Transform Human Experience | Marc Andreessen
In this episode, my guest is Marc Andreessen, the legendary software innovator who co-created the internet browser Mosaic, co-founded Netscape, and is now at Andreessen Horowitz — a venture capital firm that finds and brings to life technologies that transform humanity.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo's sprawling crime novel The Godfather explores the dark realities of the American Mafia through the rise of the Corleone family.
Discussed“There was this myth that happened around the movie The Godfather, and then there was this character, Meyer Lansky, who's like, ran basically the Mafia 50, 60, 70 years ago.”
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The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri is a political analysis book written by a former CIA media analyst that examines how digital information and social media have triggered widespread public distrust in institutional authorities.
Discussed“Martin Gurri wrote, I think, the best book on this called the Revolt of the Public, where he goes through this in detail.”
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When Reason Goes on Holiday
When Reason Goes on Holiday by Neven Sesardic is a detailed analytical examination that scrutinizes the ideological blind spots and political statements of prominent intellectuals, including Albert Einstein, during the early twentieth century.
Discussed“Andrew Huberman: Yeah, I'm unlikely to run that experiment. I was just curious. That was what we call a Gedanken experiment. Marc Andreessen: Andrew, you're a terrible human being. We were looking for evidence that you're a terrible human being, and now we know it. This is a great example of the, I gave Andrew a book on the way”
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition
Discussed“And so I finally found this book that I think has a good model for it. A book is called Men, Machines, and Modern Times. And it's written by this MIT professor, like, 60 years ago.”
